ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

So Monday night I finally got around to putting up a photo album of the wedding and the various wedding pictures.  I only had the ones that were taken on my camera and my father-in-law’s wife’s camera, but it pretty much covered all the bases anyway.  It took me a while to get the album up, because I don’t consider it a real photo album until it has been fully captioned with something for every picture.  Because, seriously, I don’t try to pretend that my pictures are all that terrific to look at just on their own merit.

However.  Yesterday morning while I was at work, I got an e-mail notification from Flickr that there had been activity on my photo stream.  Some person I’d never heard of had selected a few of my pictures as “favorites”.  I was puzzled.  When I went and looked, I realized it was a couple of pictures of my sister-in-law and one of their cousins that had been marked.  This made me suspicious.  I went and looked at this person and none of his? pictures were public.  This annoyed me.  Who the hell is this guy to favorite pictures of my teenage family members and then not even have public albums of his own?

Then I got caught up with work and forgot about it for the day.  And this morning I got another favorites notification.  I felt this one was worse because the guy did have public albums.  And they were all these candid shots of women in the store and on the sidewalk and the subway and shit like that.  And most of it wasn’t even overtly sexual, and neither was the image he selected of my sister-in-law, but the invasiveness of it bothered me.  I mean, these women probably have no idea that this creep is using his fucking cell phone to photograph their laps under a lunch table or their feet in a store. I figure he found the pictures because that other guy favorited them.

I blacklisted both of them from my Flickr account.  Because really, just leaving it like it was would have made me feel gross about the whole thing.  The images on this guy’s photostream are fairly innocent.  But the whole thing is completely intrusive.  If he finds women’s feet and legs sexually attractive, there’s nothing wrong with that.  But the thing that makes it seem totally creepy is the fact that they’re all taken secretly.  I’m sure she and her friends have posted all kinds of swimming pictures and stuff on Facebook that is way more revealing than anything that was taken at my wedding, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still find it gross that some guy wants to look at their innocent teenage feet and legs.

So that rant aside, I think the wedding pictures turned out rather well. This is one of my favorites, even though my teeth are huge and look like Chiclets:

And I am not drunk in this picture, even though it may look that way:

Or in this one:

I don’t remember what we were talking about here. But I’m posting this because my husband was caught in a rare smile. Usually he looks solemn, like a Russian.

We have this heart shaped gang symbol that we flash at each other sometimes. West side, yo.